17 For (A)it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God's will, than for doing evil.

18 For Christ also (B)suffered[a] (C)once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, (D)that he might bring us to God, being put to death (E)in the flesh but made alive (F)in the spirit,

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 3:18 Some manuscripts died

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